Program

The conference takes place in the Bruxelles timezone, Central European Summer Time, UTC/GMT+2.

Day 1. Digital forms: aesthetics and archaelogy

9:30-9:45   Welcome

  • Prof. Maaheen Ahmed (Universiteit Gent)

9:45-10:00  Presentation of the conference

  • Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Universiteit Gent), Lorenzo Di Paola (Università di Messina), Nicoletta Mandolini (Universidade do Minho)

10.00-11:00 Keynote 1. Lukas R.A. Wilde

  • Prof. Lukas R.A. Wilde (Universität Tübingen): Digital Comics and Media Aesthetics: From Transmedia Forms to Hypermedia and Intermedia – ON CAMPUS

11.00-11.30  Longer coffee break

11:30-13:00  Panel 1. Archaeology of digital comics

  • Giorgio Busi Rizzi (Universiteit Gent) – Lorenzo Di Paola (Università di Messina): New forms and reading protocols: for a genealogy of digital comics – ON CAMPUS

  • Mario Tirino (Università di Salerno) – Lorenzo Di Paola (Università di Messina): At the origins of digital comics: imaginaries and media history of the first intersections between comics and digital media – HYBRID

  • Simona Castellano (Università di Salerno): Digital comics and social media: comics created for Instagram, between affordances, communities and new ways to engage consumers – ONLINE

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 Panel 2. Comics!: from digital to print

  • Daniel Goodbrey (University of Hertfordshire): From Digital Display to Printed Page: An Exploration of the Use of Digital Comic Adaptations and Hybridisations in Print Comic formats – ON CAMPUS

  • Josh Rose (Dallas College, Texas): Backwards Compatibility: Formal Regression When Comics Shift from Digital Conception to Print – ON CAMPUS

  • Marco D’Alessandro (Independent Scholar): Continuity: behind the screen and inside the frame – ON CAMPUS

15:30-16:00  Longer coffee break

16:00-17:00  Keynote 2. Lorenzo Ghetti and Carlo Trimarchi

  • Lorenzo Ghetti (comics author): TO BE COntinued and the choices behind making a webcomic – ONLINE

  • Carlo Trimarchi (webmaster): Building Webcomics: A Developer’s Perspective – ONLINE

17:00-17:30  Longer coffee break

17:30-19:00  Panel 3. The aesthetics of digital comics

  • Misha Grifka Wander (Ohio State University): Digital Time, Space, and Comics – ONLINE

  • Ivan Pintor Iranzo (Pompeu Fabra University): From the window to the map in e-comics: psychogeography of immersion – ONLINE

  • Gaelle Kovaliv (Université de Lausanne): Internet, le paradis perdu des bandes dessinées? – ON CAMPUS

19:00            Small reception 

 

Day 2. Digital practices and activism

10:00-10.30 Presentation EUDICOM – European Digital Comics project. 

  • Enrico Turrin (Federation of European Publishers)

10.30-11:30 Keynote 1. Prof. Grace Gipson

  • Grace Gipson (Virginia Commonwealth University): Re-writing the Comic Script into the Digital: Creating “New Normals,” “New Frontiers,” and “New Modes of Engagement” – ON CAMPUS

11.30-12.00  Longer coffee break

12.00-13:00  Panel 1. Gender, feminisms, and digital comics 

  • Nicoletta Mandolini (Universidade do Minho): A Feminist Smash! Instagram Comics against Gender Violence in Latin America and Italy – ON CAMPUS

  • Virginie Giuliana (Université Clermont Auvergne): De l’image au message : la bande dessinée numérique par Precariada – ON CAMPUS

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Panel 2. Reality and the digital: graphic journalism and documentary comics

  • Dario Boemia (IULM): Graphic journalism and digital comics. A preliminary survey – ONLINE

  • Brittany Tullis (St. Ambrose University): From Print to Webpage – The Evolution of Documentary Comics in Present-day Peru – ON CAMPUS

15:00-15:15  Shorter coffee break

15:15-16:15  Keynote 2. Prof. Lucia Tralli

  • Lucia Tralli (AUR – The American University of Rome): Radical Inclusivity and the Queer Affective Labor of Oh Joy Sex Toy, Erika Moen’s “Queer, Pervy and Weirdo” Sex-Education Webcomics – ON CAMPUS

16:15-16:45 Longer coffee break

16:45-17:45 Panel 3. Unconventional practices in underground digital comics

  • Carlotta Vacchelli (Biblioteca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute, Rome): Digital Comics and the Italian Underground. Čapek Magazine and Love-Bot – ON CAMPUS

  • Benoît Crucifix (Universiteit Gent): Poorly Drawn: Graphic Incompetence as Aesthetic Virtue in Digital Comics – ON CAMPUS

17:45-18.00 Shorter coffee break

18.00-19.00 Panel 4. Digital comics creators and activism

  • Alice Parrinello (University of Oxford): Digital Comics and Queer Activism – ONLINE

  • Alessia Mangiavillano (Coventry University): COme VIte Distanti: An Italian collective experience of comics activism on social media in the time of COVID-19 – ONLINE

Day 3. Digital audiences, reception, and participation

9.30-10:30 Keynote 1. Ilan Manouach

  • Ilan Manouach (Aalto University, comics author): Comics as a computational object – ON CAMPUS

10.30-11.00 Longer coffee break

11:00-12:00 Panel 1. Digital comics from creation to publication 1

  • Charlotte J. Fabricius (Syddansk Universitet): The Comicity of Instagram Cartooning – ON CAMPUS

  • Matteo Gaspari (Independent Scholar): Feltrinelli Comics, a case study to explore the impact of digital comics on the Italian comics’ landscape and publishing industry – ON CAMPUS

12:00-12:15 Shorter coffee break

12.15-13.15 Panel 2. Digital comics and their readers

  • Cigdem Erdal (Harran University): Time-Killers or Life-Changers? Webtoon Reading Experiences from Turkey – ON CAMPUS

  • Wagner Dornelles (Universidade Federal Fluminense): From ink to binary codes: colors, authorship, media and digital technologies – ONLINE

13:15-14:15  Lunch break

14:15-15:15 Keynote 2. Margarita Molina Fernandez

  • Margarita Molina Fernandez (Université du Québec à Montréal, comics author): Understanding Digital Comics for Creation: from Conception to Reception – ON CAMPUS

15:15-15.45 Longer coffee break

15:45-17:15 Panel 3. Participatory practices and social media

  • Alessio Aletta (University of Toronto): “24 Ore Comics” (2016-2020). Patterns, Features, Interactions in a Social Media Comic-Making Event – ONLINE

  • Kin Wai Chu (KU Leuven): The collaborative production of digital cartoons on the social media – ONLINE

  • Chunwei Liu (University of Glasgow): Cosplaying through voice: self-identification and gender-crossing in fan-dubbed animated comics – ONLINE

17:15-17:30 Shorter coffee break

17:30-18:30 Panel 4. Digital comics from creation to publication 2

  • Linda Berube (City, University of London, British Library): Producing Comics, Creating Culture: UK digital comics from creation to consumption – ONLINE

  • Maya Quaianni – Simone Marchisano (WOW – Spazio fumetto, Milan): Promoting digital comics – ONLINE

18.30-19.00 iCOn-MICS 

19:00- 19:30 Conclusive remarks

20:15 Conference dinner

 

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